I am pleased to be involved in this nice publication from my friend Florence Ragon ! This article about intra framework cross linking of anhydrides in UiO-66 MOFs has been accepted for publication in J. Mater. Chem. A.
The functionalization of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with free carboxylic groups is naturally difficult due to their potential coordination with metal ions. The impact of functionalizing the archetypical metal organic framework UiO-66(Zr) with free pending carboxylic groups was thus studied by a multi-technique approach.